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...chance of stealing the show from Milnes and Raimondi. The opening-night lead, though, is the biggest plum the Met can offer. In the hy-pertense backstage world of grand opera, Arroyo is a refreshingly unpretentious anti-diva-a cool, relaxed, blend of fun and kindness. Explaining how she got the part, she remarked characteristically, "My mother says it's because all the good singers were out of town...
...hapless Verona policeman once ticketed a misparked car belonging to hot-tempered Diva Maria Callas. His action touched off a string of unearthly trills and cadenzas. The soprano was fined for only a traffic violation, but Opera Manager Alberto Tantini was able to fix things with Police Chief Aldo Ballarini. A third gentleman of Verona, the magistrate, saw it all quite differently. He initiated a new charge against Callas of insulting a public official and even escalated the affair by accusing Tantini and Ballarini of bearing false witness and failing to report a misdemeanor. All that happened back...
After her tax accountant, one Norman Egenberg, was indicted on charges of bribing IRS agents, the U.S. income tax records of Italian Diva Renata Tebaldi became public property. A deduction labeled "claque" in the 1964 and 1965 returns cast doubts on the spontaneity of some of the opera star's standing ovations. In fact, at $2,400 and $2,500 per annum, it seemed as if she had some pretty high-priced talent in her rooting section. On the witness stand at Egenberg's trial, the imperious Tebaldi denied all: "I never paid a claque in my life...
Opera in the buff? Why not? asks comely Diva Anna Moffo, who appears in the nude in the movie Una Storia a"A more. "I would strip in grand opera as completely as I do in motion pictures," she maintains. "By dropping clothes I think I drop not merely the so-called moral inhibitions but also a few others." Next, Oh! Carmen...
...know what was happening." What was happening was a strong earthquake-5.6 on the Richter scale-the bay area's biggest jolt in twelve years. A few of the less courageous and persevering opera devotees headed for the exits, but most stayed on to hear the diva finish with the phrase addio senza rancore (goodbye without regret). "We never missed a note," said Dorothy proudly, "but I kept thinking about those last words in the aria...